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Prominence in Language

Linguistic research at the University of Cologne

CRC "Prominence in Language"

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Welcome to "Prominence in Language"

In this Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252) more than sixty researchers are working together in an interdisciplinary team with the goal of providing a comprehensive characterization of prominence in language.

We investigate how prominence structures language with respect to prosody (Area A), morphosyntax and semantics (Area B) as well as text and discourse structure (Area C) in a large variety of languages from more than a dozen major language families and linguistic areas world wide. Our research on prominence contributes to a better understanding of language as a system between communication and cognition.

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The European Huns had ancient Siberian roots

The European Huns had ancient Siberian roots

A linguistic study proves that the European Huns and their Asian ancestors spoke the same Palaeo-Siberian language. This result refutes the previously assumed Turkish. Dr. Svenja Bonmann and Dr. Simon Fries analysed linguistic data based on loan words, glosses in Chinese texts, proper names of the Hun dynasty as well as place and water names. You can find more information about this research, the article and the authors by clicking here.
Lectures by Petra Schumacher at the SSSPP 2025

Lectures by Petra Schumacher at the SSSPP 2025

The "SFB Summer School on Pronouns at the Plus" (SSSPP) in Salzburg (July 1-11, 2025 at Paris Lodron University Salzburg) includes a series of lectures by Prof. Petra Schumacher (A01, C07, C09, Z) on prominence, pronouns and language processing. More information about the Summer School program can be found here.
Research Data and Methods series

Research Data and Methods series

Job Schepens and Luke Günther from Project S are organising a new series of talks and tutorials on research data and methods with a focus on best practices and open science principles. All the members of the CRC and visiting guests are invited to join these talks at the Spitzboden in the HoP, every other Wednesday afternoon, starting on May 7th. For further information and the complete program of the series please click here.
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